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Paranatinga fire, June 2020 Paranatinga

Out · last detection 16 Jun 2020, 18:04 UTC

The fire started on 8 June 2020 in Paranatinga, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 7,613 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 647th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 291 in Brazil in 2020, of 957.

Burnt area
7,613ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
9days
8 Jun 2020 – 16 Jun 2020
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
8 Jun
2020
Heat detections
342
in a single hotspot: 357 MW
Danger at start
21
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
11.6GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

16 Jun 2020
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 8 Jun16 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

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Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

33°high
38km/h · peak gust
30%lowest humidity

It had gone 15 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

61% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 3,342 ha in 2018, 1,821 ha in 2019. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 4,622 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Paranatinga 26,423 inhabitants where it started
    7,634 ha reached on 8 Jun
    0.3 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
8 Jun 32.7 °C 41 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
9 Jun 33.1 °C 38 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
10 Jun 33.0 °C 35 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
11 Jun 32.7 °C 38 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
12 Jun 32.9 °C 39 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
13 Jun 33.2 °C 36 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
14 Jun 32.8 °C 30 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
15 Jun 31.7 °C 37 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
16 Jun 31.4 °C 38 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
17 Jun after 30.3 °C 42 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
18 Jun after 30.7 °C 43 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
19 Jun after 31.3 °C 38 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
20 Jun after 31.4 °C 41 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
21 Jun after 32.5 °C 36 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
22 Jun after 31.8 °C 32 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
23 Jun after 31.5 °C 38 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
24 Jun after 32.4 °C 39 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
25 Jun after 32.0 °C 44 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
26 Jun after 32.8 °C 30 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
27 Jun after 31.6 °C 47 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
28 Jun after 31.9 °C 40 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
29 Jun after 32.9 °C 32 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
30 Jun after 32.5 °C 35 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
1 Jul after 33.2 °C 30 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
2 Jul after 31.6 °C 41 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
3 Jul after 33.2 °C 31 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 30

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 1 Jun 2020
After · 23 Jun 2020

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

Detections table · 342Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Paranatinga fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 8 June 2020 and 16 June 2020: 9 days between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 7,613 hectares (76.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Paranatinga (7,634 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 33.2 °C, humidity dropped to 30 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 32, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Brazil (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

Emergency number: 193

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Where this data comes from

The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.